Wednesday, November 21, 2018
People think i'm crazy, not without some justfication, fo rfighting so hard to get my one vote counted. Other than abstract prnciple, why does one vote matter?
in alaska right now, there is a 2,000 something tie for a house seat, which coul leave the state house tie between gop and democrats. when there s such a tie, it's too late to go back and fix broken parts of the election system, you work with the data you have to count the votes you have, as well as you can. do-overs are very rare.
In the nail-biter of a race for House District 1, Republican candidate Bart LeBon and Democratic candidate Kathryn Dodge are tied with 2,661 votes each following a review of all in-person ballots by the bi-partisan State Review Board and an initial count of absentee ballots.
the time to fix a flaw in the electon system is before you have a race wiithin the margin of litigation.
indiana's voting system is flawed.
voter ID was never really about the photo.
it's about the bar code on the back, so that the id can be scanned, and quickly and efficiently spit out the right ballot for that voter, sometimes at a centralized voting facility, instead of at the local precinct where people know each other.
but in johnson county indiana, the computer broke down for two hours, and the poll workers had forgotten how to issue paper ballots. some people waited in line. others gave up and went home. i've only been working with computers since 1974 but i have already have found reasons not to blindly trust them. johnson county is not named for lbj, who stole his way into the senate, and used haliburton money to take control of the senate and then the white house,
as documented by robert caro, who won his second pulitzer for his 5 volume bio, a study in power.
In November 2011, Caro estimated that the fifth and final volume would require another two to three years to write.[10] In March 2013, he affirmed a commitment to completing the series with a fifth volume.[11] As of April 2014, he was continuing to research the book.[12] In a televised interview with C-SPAN in May 2017, Caro confirmed over 400 typed pages as being complete, covering the period 1964–65; and that once he completes the section on Johnson's 1965 legislative achievements, he intends to move to Vietnam to continue the writing process.[13] In an interview with The New York Review of Books in January 2018, Caro said that he was writing about 1965 and 1966 and a non-chronological section about the relationship between Johnson and Bobby Kennedy. Asked if he still planned to visit Vietnam soon, Caro replied: "Not yet, no. This is a very long book. And there's a lot to do before that's necessary. I'm getting close to it now."[14]
in alaska right now, there is a 2,000 something tie for a house seat, which coul leave the state house tie between gop and democrats. when there s such a tie, it's too late to go back and fix broken parts of the election system, you work with the data you have to count the votes you have, as well as you can. do-overs are very rare.
In the nail-biter of a race for House District 1, Republican candidate Bart LeBon and Democratic candidate Kathryn Dodge are tied with 2,661 votes each following a review of all in-person ballots by the bi-partisan State Review Board and an initial count of absentee ballots.
the time to fix a flaw in the electon system is before you have a race wiithin the margin of litigation.
indiana's voting system is flawed.
voter ID was never really about the photo.
it's about the bar code on the back, so that the id can be scanned, and quickly and efficiently spit out the right ballot for that voter, sometimes at a centralized voting facility, instead of at the local precinct where people know each other.
but in johnson county indiana, the computer broke down for two hours, and the poll workers had forgotten how to issue paper ballots. some people waited in line. others gave up and went home. i've only been working with computers since 1974 but i have already have found reasons not to blindly trust them. johnson county is not named for lbj, who stole his way into the senate, and used haliburton money to take control of the senate and then the white house,
as documented by robert caro, who won his second pulitzer for his 5 volume bio, a study in power.
In November 2011, Caro estimated that the fifth and final volume would require another two to three years to write.[10] In March 2013, he affirmed a commitment to completing the series with a fifth volume.[11] As of April 2014, he was continuing to research the book.[12] In a televised interview with C-SPAN in May 2017, Caro confirmed over 400 typed pages as being complete, covering the period 1964–65; and that once he completes the section on Johnson's 1965 legislative achievements, he intends to move to Vietnam to continue the writing process.[13] In an interview with The New York Review of Books in January 2018, Caro said that he was writing about 1965 and 1966 and a non-chronological section about the relationship between Johnson and Bobby Kennedy. Asked if he still planned to visit Vietnam soon, Caro replied: "Not yet, no. This is a very long book. And there's a lot to do before that's necessary. I'm getting close to it now."[14]
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